Category: Community

Kashmir’s Growing Crisis of Abandoned Babies

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This is just a tip of iceberg: Doctors Sending shock waves, the number of infants left abandoned along roadsides and hospital premises is rising sharply across Kashmir region here. Kashmir’s chief cleric and chairman Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq expressed shock over what he termed as “degrading values” of the society. Mirwaiz in a tweet said that he was unable to sleep whole night thinking about the recent degraded developments across Srinagar city. “Are we not going toward waywardness? How can Allah be so merciful towards us when we…

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BJP takes dig at PDP’s dynastic leadership

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BJP state general secretary (organisation) Ashok Kaul today took a jibe at the dynastic leadership of its coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “In our state, big parties are in the same state… They are dynastic parties. The party (PDP) with which we have a coalition has become more dynastic,” Kaul said while addressing a ‘Booth Workers’ Sammelan’ at Brakpora in Anantnag district. Stating that the BJP had “internal democracy,” Kaul said the party did not discriminate against people on the basis of religion or region. “The BJP treats all…

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Low Visibility, Smoke inside Chenani-Nashri tunnel pose risk to commuters

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Low visibility, dust and suffocation inside the 9.2-km Chenani-Nashri tunnel are posing a serious threat to people’s lives. Besides, a few accidents have also occurred in the past inside the tunnel. Commuters complain of dust and suffocation inside the South East Asia’s longest tunnel, as the tall claims by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on ensuring a proper ventilation system inside the tunnel have fallen apart. The engineering marvel, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 2 last year, has bypassed the 42-km of the…

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Jaish-e-Mohammad gaining ground across Kashmir valley

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In both anti-insurgency operations last week at Hajin in Bandipora district of north Kashmir, militants managed to escape taking advantage of darkness. After a brief exchange of fire, youth clashed with security forces to disrupt the operations and helping nearly five militants involved in both operations escape the security net. One of the militants, a Pakistan national, who had fled in an injured condition, succumbed later. Earlier this month, a charged crowd of villagers had thrown stones during a cordon and search operation to help a militant escape in the…

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Kashmiri Pandit’s ‘Kiss of Life’ saves a Muslim in Delhi

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A coincidence meeting and a timely ‘kiss of life’ by a Kashmiri Pandit saved an almost-dying Kashmiri Muslim on a Delhi metro Tuesday night. When Kuldeep Raina, a New Delhi-based computer professional, who Tuesday got stuck in office work till late night, boarded the Delhi metro, he found a commuter gasping for breath. “The person was accompanied by an elderly person and two children between the age groups of four to five who were struggling to help him,” Raina said talking to Kashmir Post over phone from New Delhi. The…

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Youth forced into labour by army alleges Kulgam Village

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For the past several days army soldiers have been snatching I-cards of youths in Ashmuji village of Kulgam and then summoning them to their camp where they are beaten up and forced to do labour jobs, local residents allege. Army has termed residents’ statements as “baseless”. “My I card was snatched by army and later asked to report to their camp. As I went there next morning I was beaten up on the allegations that I am a stone pelter. I was then made to work as a bonded labourer.…

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Haj airfares slashed, J&K benefits most

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A month after it scrapped subsidies for Haj pilgrims, the government today announced a significant reduction in airfares for devotees travelling to Saudi Arabia, with the prices of round tickets being slashed by Rs 20,000 to Rs 97,000. Union Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi described the move as a “major step” that would end the “political and economic exploitation of Haj performers as was being done during the Congress-led UPA regime”, allegedly in the name of offering subsidies. The minister said the move sought to address concerns about airfares going…

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PDP manipulated khadi board recruitments: National Conference

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The selection of the Chief Minister’s cousin in a state-level exam has turned into a major political controversy as the National Conference (NC), the lead opposition party in the legislative Assembly, today accused the ruling PDP of manipulating the recruitment process. The party leaders said “someone has to be held accountable” for the illegal selections for the various posts of the Khadi and Village Industries Board (KVIB), Waqf Board, Sports Council and Integrated Child Development Services. “In recent days, some such issues have come to the fore, which are directly…

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Villagers living near LOC forced to flee as India, Pakistan trade artillery fire

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India and Pakistan have exchanged artillery fire in the disputed Kashmir region forcing hundreds of people to flee, police in Indian Kashmir said, raising fresh doubts about a 15-year-old ceasefire between the nuclear-armed rivals in the area. It was not clear what triggered the latest fighting on Saturday in the Uri sector on the so-called Line of Control (LoC) that divides the mostly Muslim Himalayan region. But tension has been running high since an attack on an Indian army camp in Kashmir this month in which six soldiers were killed.…

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Mehbooba Mufti is not going to decide about talks with Pakistan: Ram Madhav

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National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ram Madhav on Sunday said Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti “is not going to decide about talks with Pakistan”. In an interview to The Indian Express, Madhav said: “Talking or not talking to Pakistan is not for the Jammu and Kashmir alliance to decide, but the government of India. Mehboobaji can have a view, because she feels that if the two governments talk to each other, there could be de-escalation of violence. But the alliance cannot take a view, its…

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